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Live coverage: Proton soars into space with Inmarsat satellite
Russia's Proton rocket took off on its first launch of the year Sunday with a commercial satellite to expand Inmarsat's next-generation mobile communications network. Liftoff occurred at 1231 GMT (7:31 a.m. EST), and it took more than 15 hours to place the Inmarsat spacecraft in the correct orbit.
VideoVideo: Delta 2 blasts off from Vandenberg
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite blasts off aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket Saturday, launching into orbit on a three-year mission to measure moisture levels in Earth's soils.
SpaceX nears pad abort test for human-rated Dragon capsule
SpaceX is finishing up preparations for a major test of a rocket-powered abort system for the company's new Dragon crew ferry spacecraft, targeting launch from Cape Canaveral in March after a pair of Falcon 9 missions in February.
Inmarsat satellite ready for liftoff on Proton rocket
A Russian Proton rocket is scheduled to take off from Kazakhstan on Sunday with the second spacecraft to serve Inmarsat's $1.6 billion next-generation satellite communications network geared for getting faster links to customers on the move.
VideoAsteroid and its moon revealed in radar imagery
Radar imagery of a mountain-size asteroid that approached Earth this week revealed the tiny world has its own moon.
Japanese rocket launch postponed by poor weather
A threat of thick clouds kept a Japanese H-2A rocket from launching Thursday with a government-owned radar reconnaissance satellite.
VideoSpaceX releases new animation of mighty Falcon Heavy
A new animation of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket set for a debut flight later this year shows how the powerful launcher will blast off from Kennedy Space Center's famed Apollo-era launch pad 39A, and could eventually fly back to Florida's Space Coast for refurbishment and reuse.
Atlas 5 launch pad being prepared for astronaut crews
Work on Boeing's CST-100 commercial crew capsule will ramp up at the program's new home base in Florida this year, with construction of a crew access tower at the Atlas 5 rocket's launch pad underway and assembly of a spacecraft test article due to begin in a converted space shuttle hangar.
Boeing expected to win first operational space taxi order
Boeing is poised to win NASA's first order for operational commercial missions to send up astronauts to the International Space Station, a NASA official said Monday.
SpaceX confirms first Crew Dragon flights will return to ocean landings
The human-rated Crew Dragon spacecraft being developed by SpaceX will return to Earth under parachutes for splashdowns in ocean, and not execute helicopter-like propulsive touchdowns on land, a SpaceX official confirmed Monday.